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I have an ubuntu vm on VMware ESXi, When I try to install VMware tools it is grayed out, I make sure it is not installed.

Note: I install Ubuntu server 23.04 from USB stick. Also there no internet connection enter image description here

Abeer Zahrani
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It is easier and better to install open-vm-tools from the Ubuntu repositories. Just open a virtual console to your VM and sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install open-vm-tools to use the operating system managed vmtools instead.

See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073803 for more.

Dean Thayer
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  • Just saw that you have no internet access from the VM. You can still manage to get open-vm-tools installed using an .iso image. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/3576/how-to-make-usb-drive-as-local-repository for ideas on that. – Dean Thayer May 15 '23 at 18:59
  • after I installed VMware tools in that method where can I found the folder to extract its content? – Abeer Zahrani May 15 '23 at 19:42